T. Boone Pickens Quotes

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I never want to be considered a guy who made a lot of money who didn't earn it.

Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.